David H. Bailey has posted a wonderful blog entry which makes an analogy between Hiroo Onoda, who continued holding his ground according to the commands he had been given during WWII for almost 30 years after the war ended, and young-earth creationists. Here’s a taste: Unlike the history of World War II, the last holdouts in [Read More...]

Timothy Michael Law shared the news that a painting depicting Manichaean cosmology has turned up in Japan. Manichaeism is familiar to most who study ancient religion, but it survived in the Far East until only a matter of centuries ago. [Read more...]

This video from Japan shows the latest in cutting-edge, innovative technology, designed to allow fast walkers to circumvent slower ones. You know you’ve wanted to be able to do this. So what is it? A jetpack? Levitating surfboard? Watch and see! Apparently these are already available in some stores in the English-speaking world. HT Jonathan [Read More...]

I’m planning on revising my book The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith and releasing the second edition as an ebook. Having spotted a post on IO9 about the claim that there is a tomb of Christ in Japan (a topic that has come to my attention from time to time), I am wondering (1) [Read More...]